Landgrave Explained

Landgrave (German: Landgraf, Dutch; Flemish: landgraaf, Swedish: lantgreve, French: landgrave; Latin: comes magnus, Latin: comes patriae, Latin: comes provinciae, Latin: comes terrae, Latin: comes principalis, Latin: lantgravius) was a noble title used in the Holy Roman Empire, and later on in its former territories. The German titles of German: Landgraf, German: Markgraf ("margrave"), and German: Pfalzgraf ("count palatine") are in the same class of ranks as German: [[Herzog]] ("duke") and above the rank of a German: [[Graf]] ("count").






The jurisdiction of a landgrave was a landgraviate (German: Landgrafschaft|links=no), and the wife of a landgrave or a female landgrave was known as a landgravine (from the German German: Landgräfin, German: Gräfin being the feminine form of German: Graf)

The term was also used in the Carolinas (what is now North and South Carolina in the United States) during British rule. A "landgrave" was "a county nobleman in the British, privately held North American colony Carolina, ranking just below the proprietary (chartered equivalent of a royal vassal)."


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